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Don Sterling's Golden Parachute

The NBA is taking his team, not his money.

By

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

May 2, 2014 5:56 p.m. ET

Mark Cuban has since gotten onboard with the National Basketball Association's decision to force Don Sterling to give up ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, but earlier the Dallas Mavericks owner asked the important question: Isn't the league heading down a "slippery slope" by stripping a "moron" of his property because of "abhorrent" thoughts uttered in private?

The rejoinder is the same as the answer to the question of whether Major League Baseball needs an antitrust exemption to block...